Immediate thoughts

[cloudsinvenice]

Bear in mind that I'm faintly hysterical, since the moment I got online to rant about the show I fell over this bizarre news story about the sinking of the Titanic, and I can no longer tell what's real and what is highly contrived clickbait-esque bollocks. In the context of seeing a new Sherlock episode, this is most unfortunate.

Comments

[girfan]

I didn't know about the Freemans splitting up in real life, but it makes sense to write her out. I never could see why he married her after finding out her background. Love is blind?

But, her taking the bullet was a bit odd.

[cloudsinvenice]

I feel like John married her at least in part because he wanted to see himself as the kind of noble guy who could just fling that USB stick in the fire and Not Care About Her Past - but of course, in practice, life's more complicated than that...

[abject_reptile]

The theory isn't new but I think the question is - and it will likely remain a question - whether the fire weakened the hull or whether the ship was going too fast through an iceberg field as a result of the attempts to control the fire.

[cloudsinvenice]

It's fascinating because these are angles to it that wouldn't have occurred to me - even if it were possible to judge from what's left on the ocean floor (hard to imagine), presumably people would still be arguing back and forth about it forever.

[abject_reptile]

It's fair to say that coal was at fault either way. It was such a dangerous fuel for ships. By 1914, that era was over.